I concur with Cheryl. Basically all genealogical applications allow their records to contain links to external items, either files on the local file system or to URL on the world wide web. That doesn't solve the problem of where to store those links. As Cheryl points out, if you put a link in a person record, you are making the explicit statement that the linked-to evidence refers to that person. The question I am trying to get to in this thread, is how are you going to handle that evidence, a link to an external something or other in this case, when you don't yet know what person should link to it? Tom

Tom Wetmore <[email protected]> wrote: >I concur with Cheryl. Basically all genealogical applications allow their >records to contain links to external items, either files on the local file >system or to URL on the world wide web. > >That doesn't solve the problem of where to store those links. As Cheryl >points out, if you put a link in a person record, you are making the >explicit statement that the linked-to evidence refers to that person. I'd quibble and say that it MIGHT refer to that person. Genealogical software sometimes does have degree of confidence marking on source data, not that I have found it to be at all useful. >The question I am trying to get to in this thread, is how are you going >to handle that evidence, a link to an external something or other in >this case, when you don't yet know what person should link to it? Not in a genealogical application, because until you can link it to a tree, it is not ***genealogical*** data. The only obvious answer is that you organize the data in whatever way is most useful to you, based on whatever commonalities there are in the data that you think are important. If there are no such obvious commonalities, you might just be reduced to assigning an ID number to the evidence, and keeping a list indexed by ID number. lojbab --- Bob LeChevalier - artificial linguist; genealogist [email protected] Lojban language www.lojban.org